Carteira de trabalho translation to English

What a carteira de trabalho is, for a US reader

The carteira de trabalho, formally the Carteira de Trabalho e Previdência Social or CTPS, is the government-issued employment record book every formal Brazilian worker carries. Hire dates, employers, roles, salary changes, and terminations are entered and stamped inside it, which makes it work like a career-long employment verification letter issued by the state. That is why US offices ask for it in English.

Where the little blue book earns its keep

US immigration filings use it as employment-history evidence, credential evaluators use it to verify professional experience, and back-pay and benefits matters lean on the contract pages. It is often the only signed, dated record of a whole career. In a packet it sits beside other records, and the rest of a Brazilian document translation order meets the same standard.

Translate the pages that matter

Nobody needs 40 blank pages billed. Send the identification page and the pages that carry entries: contracts, salary alterations, annotations. Blank runs are noted as blank, the way the completeness rule expects, without padding your page count.

Digital CTPS counts too

The Carteira de Trabalho Digital exports a PDF of your contracts from the app. We translate that export the same way, and it is usually cleaner to read than a scanned booklet.

Cargo and CBO

Cargo is the job title the employer wrote in the contract entry, and CBO is the occupation code from the Classificação Brasileira de Ocupações, Brazil's official list of occupations. The title is the employer's own words; the code is the category. That is why two jobs with different titles can share one CBO. Some older entries leave the code blank. We translate the title as written and copy the code as printed. It stays a Brazilian code, because matching it to a US occupation is not a translator's job.

The anotações gerais pages

The anotações gerais pages hold everything that has no box of its own. Employers use them for a change of job title, an extended experience contract, a leave of absence, or a correction to an earlier entry. Notes can point back to a contract elsewhere in the booklet by page number. Some are a single line with a stamp and a signature. They explain what the contract pages leave hanging, like why a title or a date changed, and every cross-reference comes through intact in English.

Handwriting and faded stamps

Handwriting and faded stamps are the hard part of any carteira, because the booklet is printed but the employer fills it in, often by hand. A stamp can land on top of the writing, and a faded one can hide the company name or its CNPJ, which older pages call CGC. Photograph each page flat, in color, from straight above, with no glare across the ink. If a word still cannot be read, we mark it illegible rather than guess a name, date or number.

Ivy, a native Brazilian Portuguese speaker, translates and signs every order herself, and each one ships with the Certificate of Accuracy that 8 CFR 103.2(b)(3) requires.